OpenTSDB vs Prometheus
On the evidence we track, Prometheus leads this comparison with a composite score of 67/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for time-series databases. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
OpenTSDB
An open-source system for ingesting, storing, and analyzing operational metrics from infrastructure and applications. Designed to handle thousands of measurement streams from numerous hosts and services, it enables rapid data collection and subsequent querying of metric data.
Prometheus
LeaderA pull-based monitoring platform that periodically scrapes metrics from instrumented targets over HTTP and stores them in a time-series database. It provides PromQL for querying metrics and integrates with Alertmanager for rule-based alerting and incident notifications.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
OpenTSDB
- Nagios
- Icinga
- Gnuplot
Prometheus
Leader- Amazon SNS
- Discord
- incident.io
- Jira
- Mattermost
- Microsoft Teams
- OpsGenie
- PagerDuty
- Pushover
- Rocket.Chat
- Slack
- Telegram
- VictorOps
- Webex
- Webhook
- WeChat Work
- Blackbox Exporter
- Consul
- Graphite
- Memcached
- MySQL
- Node Exporter
- +41 more
OpenTSDB or Prometheus: which one depends on you
A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.
Free to run, no account needed to start. How the evaluation works
Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.